Recorded earlier this year Ludovico Einaudi’s The Royal Albert Hall Concert is a 2CD and DVD set that lets you see and hear Ludocico Einaudi at his best and a reminder to book up now for the November UK tour!
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In truth, I’m running a little behind (Oh! Err, Mrs) with the releases on VeryVeryWrongIndeed which is very poor form; especially when there’s a Codec Shift going on.
Like certain professional footballers of late, what they’ve been doing with their bodies is VeryVeryWrongIndeed, Mike Monday nails it with ‘Your Body’.
We have loved every single BBE compilation in the Kings Of series as their formula is simple, two ‘Kings of’ a genre select tracks for a double CD/LP set; nothing can go wrong and the Drum & Bass selection is no exception.
Continue reading V/A – Kings Of Drum & Bass (Compiled by 4Hero & DJ Marky)
This year our man on the ground is James Barrie, aka the Global Souljah. Join him as he checks out the best of this global scene and then drinks all the free wine
As this is on the Sound Way label with a sub-title of “Biguine, Afro & Latin sounds from the French Caribbean, 1964-74″ can you imagine that this CD is totally excellent from start to finish? Well, I think I can say that it’s even better than that!
Continue reading V/A – Tumblele! Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds – French Caribbean 1963-73
After Gilles Peterson interviewed Bonobo (aka Simon Green) a couple of weeks ago on his Radio 1 show, on the basis of the first hearing of the forthcoming single, ‘The Keeper’; the album could be the best he’s ever done!
This cat has got the cream with this slow groover called ‘Winterslow’ that’s out on Playtime that’s as much fun as a big ball of string and a scratin’ post.
Oh! how we love a track with ‘horn’ in the title? And then combined with ‘rash’, it makes it unbeatable for us; but then Nick Verwey’s debut is out on the Playtime label.
Mauricio Pacheco’s passion for Angolan music has flowered into a wonderful album of reinterpretations of classic Angolan tunes by the cutting edge of Brazil’s underground scene
Continue reading Comfusoes – from Angola to Brasil with Producer Mauricio Pacheco
Sean Worthington “Worthy” Williams and John McIver (aka Worthy & Yankee Zulu) get on the Bad Side with a extended play in playtime.
Original, soulful recordings that are fresh and and direct from Jamaica that have been hand picked by the one and only David Rodigan makes the second edition of Real Authentic Reggae as essential as the first.
Continue reading V/A – Real Authentic Reggae Vol.2 (Compiled by David Rodigan)